Post your best works
It is true that some people are willing to put their
best work online because it is an art, and art should be shared and not sold. But
they are often the people living with their parents, in a studio apartment, or
with a team of other poverty-stricken individuals. The motivation is fine, but in a capitalist society, it is not a wise one.
Show the start of a series
If you are clever enough to have made a series of
images that you are planning to sell, then you should consider showing a few
on Instagram as a sample. You can then give the website address as to where to see the
rest of them. This way you can gain a nice following
on Instagram, and still earn a little money out of your works. At the
very least, if you are going to put your best work on Instagram, you should
watermark the images so that people have to buy them from you if they want to
keep them.
Do not post them all at once
Most people will gather up a group of images that they
wish to publish, and will post them all at one time. This is not a bad
thing by any means, but you will gain more followers if you spread out the
postings. You can post a few at the same time each week, or you can post one a
day, and vary the posting times. You can post a few every month if you like - it
is up to you. People will have little motivation to follow you if you only post
all of your pictures once per year. You need to give people a reason to return
to your profile next week or next month.
Use Tags
Just like with blogs and videos on YouTube, you should
use tags. They give people an indication of what your images are all about. If
you pick the correct image tags, you will attract the right kind of
viewers. For example, if your pictures are of a young women in PVC, stretched
across books of carpet samples - then you
will not gain many followers with tags such as "puppies", "do" , "the", "funniest", "Purple". In short, tagging an image is not any rocket science, use your logic to get the most out of it.
Geo tags
They do the same thing as your regular tags, but they
will show where the photo was taken. This is great for people who hunt out the
images related to certain places. It is not just history buffs, or people who
love their own town who will search for place names. Sometimes a person may
meet someone from a place, and search Instagram for images related to that
place. Others may be planning to move to that area, and others may be planning
a trip to that area. The Geo tag need not show a landmark. You can put a Geo
tag on anything if the image was taken in the place you specify. It does not
need to be attached to an image of a Mosque; it can be attached to the image of
a brutal mugging if you wish.
Follow others
Remember when your mother told you to be a leader and
strike out on your own, and your father (if he stuck around) told you to merge
into the background. They were both right. You need to make your own mark on
Instagram if you wish to gain a sizable following, but there is nothing
stopping you from looking up what others are doing and stealing a few of their
ideas.
Attached image credits:
1. http://nikhewitt.blogspot.in/
Attached image credits:
1. http://nikhewitt.blogspot.in/
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